496728 - Check for update over the command line

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 318855

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement)

Description

[Mahesh Asolkar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

On my Linux desktop, Firefox (nightly build) is installed in /opt directory with root privileges. This is used by more than one users. When I run Firefox, Help -> Check for Updates... menu is grayed out - because I do not have enough privileges I assume. I am reluctant on running Firefox as root just to update it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install as root for multiple users to use
2. As a non-root user, try to update firefox (Help -> Check for Updates ...)
Actual Results:  
(Help -> Check for Updates ...) is grayed out for a non-root user, since root installed Firefox. To update Firefox, root must start Firefox and update it via (Help -> Check for Updates ...)

Expected Results:  
Wouldn't it be handy for firefox (and other mozilla apps) to have a command line argument to update Firefox? Something like 'sudo firefox --update'.